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Object Alone
Tailors' synagogue at 29 Shchekavitskaia St. in Kyiv
Object Detail

Building Date
1894-1895

Synagogue active dates
1895-1929, after 1945

Reconstruction Dates
1916 (interior by V. Rykov); 2001-2003 by V. Khromchenkov and A. Ostraikher (dome added)

Community

Location
Ukraine | Kyivs'ka obl. | Kyiv (Київ)
| 29 Shchekavits'ka St.

Material/Technique

Construction Material
Brick

Summary and Remarks

Suggested Reconsdivuction

History/Provenance
Closed 1929 and converted into a club; from 1945 synagogue; rebuilt 2001-2003, arch. V. Khromchenkov and A. Ostraikher

Condition

Present Usage
Synagogue

Present Usage Details

Historical significance: Event/Period

Historical significance: Collective Memory/Folklore

Historical significance: Person

Architectural Significance: Style

Architectural Significance: Artistic Decoration

Urban significance

Significance Rating
2 (Regional)

Condition of Building Fabric
B (Fair)

Bibliography
Rossiiskaia evreiskaia entsiklopediia, vol. 5 (Moscow, 2004), p. 81-82, ill. on p. 82; Yantovskii, Shimon, Sud'by evreiskikh obshchin i ikh sinagog, SSSR, 1976-1987 (Jerusalem, 2003), ills on p. 344; Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern, "The Gardians of Faith". Jewish Traditional Societities in the Russian Army: The Case of the 35th Briansk Regiment," in Eric Lohr and Marshall Poe (eds.), The Military and Society in Russia, 1450-1917 (Leiden: Brill, 2002), p. 413-439., p. 427; Natan M. Meir, Kiev, Jewish Metropolis: A History, 1859-1914 (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2010), p. 30-31; Kalʹnitskii, Mikhail. Sinagoga Kievskoi iudeiskoi obshchiny: 5656-5756: istoricheskii ocherk. Kiev: Institut iudaiki, 1996.
Beizer, Michael. Our Legacy: The CIS Synagogues, Past and Present (Moscow-Jerusalem: Gesharim - Mosty Kultury, 2002)

Jewish Cemeteries, Synagogues, and Mass Grave Sites in Ukraine (Washington, DC: U.S. Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad, 2005), https://jewishheritageguide.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/uscpaha_jewish_survey_ukraine_2005.pdf (accessed November 30, 2021)

Kal'nyts'kyj, Mikhailo. Evrejs'ki adresy Kyeva / Jewish Addresses of Kiev (Kiev, 2008).

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Full Name
Volume
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Photographer
Photograph Date
2007

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